Article 26 states that citizens must "uphold righteousness as well as good values and discipline, be responsible for citizens' duties, be accountable to society and the people, and be in harmony, pertinacity and self-reliance".

I well remember that suggestions arising from this ballad led us into a train of thought wherein there became manifest an opinion of Usher's which I mention not so much on account of its novelty, (for other men have thought thus,) as on account of the pertinacity with which he maintained it.

6) The pertinacity with which Keats strives to align himself with the longstanding media of poetry and the book may be responsible for the lack of sustained commentary on his relation to the larger ecology of contemporaneous means of communication.

To me the beauty I get is the sight of my students, beginning as raw youth, gradually developing, out of their own energy and pertinacity, into leaders, scientists, authors, professors, doing important work, whether for labor, capitalists, governments, or succeeding generations of students.

Two months later (while Roger Fry's Post-Impressionist exhibition was showing) it reported, under the headline 'The Persecution of the Modernists', that 'The Vatican continues to carry on with characteristic pertinacity its war against Modernism, supplying a useful potted history of this 'war':

Against formidable odds, the manifesto precipitated radical changes in the way films in West Germany were funded and made, and it profoundly changed the equation with respect to the question of who would make them, with an immediacy, a vehemence, and a pertinacity that are truly astonishing.

From his work on love and meaningfulness to the more recent reflections on opera and film, he combines the skeptical pertinacity of the analytic tradition--a hard-nosed demand for clarity--with an open mind and an uncommon ease with the provisional.

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